Texan gets life over murder-for-hire plot

8:26 PM,
May 16, 2013

Linda Kate Keeney Passanti

Written by

Loresha Wilson

A San Antonio woman must serve life in prison for plotting to have her stepfather killed, Caddo District Judge John Mosely decided Thursday.

Linda Kate Passaniti faced a mandatory life sentence a Caddo jury convicted her of being a principal to second-degree murder. The same panel also found the 57-year-old guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and three counts of forgery.

Prosecutors say Passaniti masterminded the plot to kill Ernest Luttrell to gain access to his Haynesville Shale money. His wife found him shot to death in their Keithville home. ...